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  • Transform Don’t Trash NYC

    - by Gavin Kear­ney (Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice Direc­tor, New York Lawyers for the Pub­lic Inter­est) & Eddie Bautista (Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, New York City Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice Alliance) New York City’s homes and busi­ness­es gen­er­ate any­where from 6 to 8 mil­lion tons of mixed sol­id waste every year – more than any oth­er city in the coun­try. And the man­ner…

  • Remembering Marvin Wheeler

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network  When we formed Allen­town Res­i­dents for Clean Air (ARCA) in 2012, we could­n’t have kicked it off with­out Mar­vin Wheel­er, who found us as an active mem­ber of the West Park Civic Asso­ci­a­tion. As a retired school nurse, Mar­vin under­stood the health threat posed by the plan to burn 150…

  • Are Media Outlets Megaphones for Polluters?

    Are Media Out­lets Mega­phones for Polluters? Thurs­day, May 21, 2015 at 5pm PST / 8 ET Guest Speak­er: Steve Horn, Inves­tiga­tive Journalist Are media out­lets doing an ade­quate job cov­er­ing the health and envi­ron­men­tal impacts of dirty ener­gy cor­po­ra­tions and oth­er polluters? Not accord­ing to Steve Horn, a Madi­son, Wis­con­sin-based free­lance inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist and writer for DeSmog­Blog. Steve has…

  • Solar Generation May Sideline Biomass Heating

    [Note: this arti­cle is writ­ten by long-time wood stove cheer­leader, John Ack­er­ly.  It’s nice to see him admit­ting that his wood-burn­ing dreams are about to be dashed by solar pow­er.  Ener­gy Jus­tice does not sup­port com­bus­tion sources for heat­ing, since non-burn alter­na­tives exist, and since there are many pol­lu­tion and health prob­lems relat­ing to wood stoves.]…

  • Chinese Incinerator Plan Cancelled After Thousands Join Protests

    - by Mimi Lau, April 9, 2015, South Chi­na Morn­ing Post A west­ern Guang­dong city has can­celled a plan to build an incin­er­a­tor that prompt­ed a protest — of up to 10,000 peo­ple on some accounts — dur­ing which three police cars were flipped and a duty office vandalised. Luod­ing city gov­ern­ment post­ed two let­ters on its…

  • Shuttered Claremont, New Hampshire Incinerator to Reopen

    - by Patrick O’Grady, April 15, 2015, Val­ley News The shut­tered Whee­labra­tor incin­er­a­tor on Gris­som Lane was sold at auc­tion Tues­day for $1.63 mil­lion, with the buy­er say­ing he plans to use it to burn munic­i­pal waste. As sev­er­al bid­ders stood out­side the plant hop­ing to pick up pieces of equip­ment at a bar­gain price, auc­tion­eer Stu­art Mill­ner…

  • Reject the Exelon Takeover of Pepco

    Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work tes­ti­fied in D.C. against Exelon ener­gy cor­po­ra­tion’s takeover of Pep­co, elec­tric ser­vice provider to Wash­ing­ton, D.C. and Maryland.  This takeover is a bad deal for the Dis­trict of Colum­bia and is not in the pub­lic inter­est. It would hit DC ratepay­ers with high­er elec­tric­i­ty bills, would under­mine renew­able ener­gy and would not…

  • Save America’s Forests and Wild Lands from Anti-Environmental Congress

    The log­ging, graz­ing, min­ing and oth­er extrac­tive indus­tries are mount­ing an intense attack on our nation’s pub­lic lands.  The Decem­ber 2014 lame duck ses­sion of Con­gress saw an ugly brew of anti-con­ser­va­tion ini­tia­tives remov­ing legal con­ser­va­tion pro­tec­tion from mil­lions of acres of pub­lic lands. But this was just the tip of the oncom­ing extrac­tive indus­tries iceberg.…

  • Radioactive Spikes from Nuclear Plants a Likely Cause of Childhood Leukemia

    - by Dr. Ian Fair­lie, Ecol­o­gist On 23rd August, The Ecol­o­gist pub­lished very clear evi­dence of increased can­cers among chil­dren liv­ing near nuclear pow­er sta­tions around the world, includ­ing the UK. The sto­ry sparked much inter­est on social media sites, and per­haps more impor­tant­ly, the arti­cle’s sci­en­tif­ic basis (pub­lished in the aca­d­e­m­ic peer-reviewed sci­en­tif­ic jour­nal the Jour­nal of Envi­ron­men­tal Radioac­tiv­i­ty) was down­loaded over 500…

  • $629 Million in Taxpayer Dollars for Bioenergy

    - by Erin Voegele, March 19, 2015, Ethanol Pro­duc­er Magazine On March 12, the U.S. Ener­gy Infor­ma­tion Admin­is­tra­tion pub­lished a report on direct fed­er­al finan­cial inter­ven­tions and sub­si­dies in ener­gy for fis­cal year (FY) 2103. The report, which responds to a request from Reps. Fred Upton, R‑Mich., chair­man of the House Com­mit­tee on Ener­gy and Com­merce…